The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-05-27
Farm Notes.

Wash horse collars with carbolic
soap, and then oil the inside.
For the rotting of the ripe tomato
upon the vine no remedy is known.
The best cultivation of corn and ga
den crops Is made before seed is plant
ed.
When the pigs are coughing, it indi
Gates not only damp yards, but also that
the roof OF the shelter leaks.
Whenever the wheat fields and pas
tures are thrown up by the frost, il is
best Co run a roller over the crop.
One-third of the wood ashes is lime,
and this lime is more valuable for crops
than stone lime; il once having enter
cd into vegetable life is hlore soluble
and easily taken up by plants.
Alsike clover is coming 10 be regard
ed by bee men as one of the best honey
producing plants known. One author
ity says that one acre of alslle will pre-
duce $50 pounds OF the best honey in
one season.
Bitter milk may he caused by certain
kinds Of food; by lack OF thorough hot
water cleansing of milk vessels; by
milking COWS To near the time of calv-
ing; or by the unhealthy condition Cf
tae animals.
the dairy business in the United States,
rlising product valued at $500 COO, ,000
p year. There are in the country I5,-
0t00a0 cows producing 1000, coo, 0O0
pounds Of butter annually.
a little tallow applied TO fruit trees
will preserve them from rabbits. Lard
should not be used as il is likely to
stride into the wood. Some use a mix
ture of one part each of tallow and tar,
but tallow alone is sufficient.
The Colorado horticultural society
publishes a vigorous essay from one of
its members, who says: Fruit makes
good natured father, a happy mother
and jolly lot of children. If YOU do
not believe il, try il and be convinced.
A writer in the New Orleans Pica1j-
u'1e says: I have taken with &ores of
farmers, and they seem unanimous i'm
agreeing that to pay the road tax in
m ,ney, and have the roads repaired by
contractors, is the only way TO have
good roads.
Bees do not work as well in a hive
exposed TO the sun. In midday, when
very hot, all work on the inside. such
as comb building and storing honey.
has to be suspended. Sometimes combs
melt down, and the brood dies in the
heat of the sun.
The highest apple orchard in the
United States is reported to be at Hot
Springs, lake Tahoe, Cal. The trees
bear well. This is said to be the great
est altitude at which this fruit is grown
in this country, hcing over 1900 feet
above the level of the sea.
If your horse refuses his feed it is not
certain evidence that he is out of con-
dition. His feed-box may be filthy or
sour. All horses are cieanly; most
horses are dainty and particular. Clean
out the manger and make things neat
and sweet. This may be all that is
needed. Some horses will not eat grass
even in a pasture where hogs have run.
In late discussion as TO "What do
farmers most need TO do TO improve
their farms, their finances and them
selves,o there were many useful sugges-
tions, among which Were summer fall
owing; sowing clover with grain in
spring and plowing it under in the fall;
rotation of crops; feeding out all coarse
grains on the farm; better care of stock;
more attention to the demands of the
market, and more careful reading of
agricultural papers.
A writer in the New York Tribune
gives the following bit Of his experience:
wv hen / milk in seven minutes a COW
giving nine quarts at one milking, she
itCNNi Val w IlCti i tohss
lest on my occasional absense the COW
might resent the presence of a stranger
and the man takes fifteen minutes to
milk her, the COW gives quart or two
less. The same happened when, be-
caus of badly bruised thumb, milk
ed the COW more slowly than usual. Il
COW with short teats is MIXED by using
the bent thumb and the first two fin
gers, and is thus milked as quickly as
another COW with the whole hand.
When another milSer strips the cow
with the thumb and forcing ger, the milk
always falls off. If, as is most proba-
bic, a good deal of milk is seereted dur /
ing the milking, the rapid milker
should get the most milk, and the guam
tity should keep regularly up TO the
standard yield so long as the some quick
method il practiccd.'